This week on the podcast, we’re sitting down with the brand-new team Glitch, built by students from U.C. Berkeley. This absolutely gorgeous robot combines a stealth bomber aesthetic, billet body, omnidirectional wheels and a punishing vertical eggbeater. We learn more about the team and their build process, now that filming of the 2021 season has wrapped.

 

This week’s combat robotics news:

Filming of the 2021 season of BattleBots has wrapped

New BattleBots slot machine: https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/battlebots-slot-machine-debuts-as-2021-world-championship-tapes-in-las-vegas/

BattleBots is getting an artist-in-residence: https://www.vegas24seven.com/battlebots-announces-las-vegas-artist-david-fay-as-first-artist-in-residence/ 

Team Whyachi on builder pay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VriBrKYbl8 

Join Team Uarrior: https://www.facebook.com/uairrior/photos/a.215497238556391/3923228984449846/ 

Blacksmith unveils the fire-breathing “Power Saw”: https://www.facebook.com/Teamhfa/posts/327214575618597 

Captain Shrederator unveils “Killdozer of Freedom”: https://www.facebook.com/spinwinning/videos/367510231579660/ 

Duck shows off very long forks: https://www.facebook.com/BlackandBlueRobotics/posts/226473182826284 

Glitch’s machined billet frame(s): https://www.facebook.com/glitchbattlebot/posts/114968597569262 

Glitch’s test box footage: https://www.facebook.com/glitchbattlebot/posts/114968277569294 

Two-Headed Death Flamingo confirmed? https://www.facebook.com/2hdflamingo/posts/232140198917791 

David Small wins the Battle of David: https://www.facebook.com/malicebattlebot/videos/1232221650558746/  

Perfect Phoenix appears at BattleBots? https://www.facebook.com/TylerNguyen09/posts/2690319264602011 

Zach and Diana made robotic Pokemon for ComiCon: https://youtu.be/kCkU6U9KSWg 

 

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